Development Study of Safety leadership Measuring Tools for SMEs: Focused on the SMEs in Busan

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale that can measure SME safety leadership and to verify the measuring tools. First, the concepts and areas of SME safety leadership were newly defined by examining domestic and international literature on leadership and safety leadership in order to derive the conceptual framework for safety leadership. Sub-factors for safety leadership measurement were derived based on previous studies, and the measurement items were drafted based on this. Preliminary items were verified through review by leadership experts and SME safety-related practitioners to secure content validity for the draft question, and then validity and reliability were verified through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis for tool verification. Finally, a total of 27 questions were finally confirmed as the SME safety leadership measurement tool, consisting of 12 task-oriented behaviors, 7 relationship-oriented behaviors, and 8 change-oriented behaviors. In the conclusion, a summary of the study, implications, and limitations were presented.